hi my name is sasha molina today i'm going to be teaching you a simple phrase in psychodrumming or japanese drumming as you see we have some equipment here and you probably don't have that at home but if you wanted to try some things out you can use the middle of a paper towel roll some pool noodles or something like that as your bocce or drumsticks and this is a taiko drum this is a chew daiko and this is a she made daiko you can use pillows or blankets or couches something that you can hit first we have to learn how to stand at the taiko we are going to stand in something called a horse dance knees bent feet out and we're going to bring our bocce out to our taiko drum we're squeezing with our pinky and squeezing with our ring finger and there's movement within our hands when i want you to do something i'm gonna say each knee sword that is our tempo or how fast i want you to go the first thing we're going to do is get back into that taiko stance and we're just going to tap one and two and three and four and on [Music] this is called a suku asuku are small little hits next we're gonna bend this elbow here from here to here and we're going to do the exact same thing we're going to bend and you're going to hit that is called adoko ardelko is our medium hit in taiko and we're gonna do four of those each knee sword fantastic let's put that together four suku and four doco [Music] next we're gonna do our biggest hit in taiko it's called a dome we're going to come back to our good taiko player position and we're just going to lift our arm all the way up and then we're going to let our elbow fall into this doko position and then we're going to hit now we're going to do three dome now why are we doing that fourth beat that fourth beat is going to go like attitude and we're going to say hop when we do it each knee so right [Music] next we're going to do some movement so we're here we're going to bring our right hand into our body and we're going to go up again then our left hand around and up so we're going to actually put that together from the dome we're gonna go and then around hop around now to end the song we're gonna do three more dawn and then we're gonna post and say whatever you think looks cool okay let's put that all together each the sword [Music] thanks everyone for joining and don't forget to watch the full episode of if cities could dance on sacramento taiko johnny [Music]
